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VIIRS Imagery Examples. Steven Miller Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO Jeremy Solbrig, Mindy Surratt, Kim Richardson, Arunas Kuciauskas, Jeff Hawkins, Tom Lee and Richard Bankert Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA
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VIIRS Imagery Examples Steven Miller Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO Jeremy Solbrig, Mindy Surratt, Kim Richardson, Arunas Kuciauskas, Jeff Hawkins, Tom Lee and Richard Bankert Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA December 9, 2011
VIIRS: Zoom-In On Tokyo Tokyo
NPP VIIRS True Color Examples South Florida, Bahamas and Cuba
NPP VIIRS True Color Examples Great Lakes Region
NPP VIIRS True Color Examples Northeastern USA
NPP VIIRS True Color Examples New Orleans and Gulf of Mexico Aqua MODIS 11-24-11 1840Z NPP VIIRS 11-24-11 1845Z NOAA-19 AVHRR 11-24-11 2000Z
NPP VIIRS True Color Examples Edge of Scan Intercomparisons NPP VIIRS 11-24-11 1845Z NOAA-19 AVHRR 11-24-11 2000Z NOAA-19 AVHRR 11-24-11 2000Z Aqua MODIS 11-24-11 1840Z NPP VIIRS 11-24-11 1845Z
NPP VIIRS True Color Examples Southwest US and Baja California Note edge of scan resolution degradation with MODIS imagery
NPP VIIRS True Color Examples Southwest US and Baja California Note edge of scan resolution degradation with MODIS imagery NOAA-18 AVHRR 11-24-11 2055Z NPP VIIRS 11-24-11 2028Z
NPP VIIRS True Color Examples Southwest US and Baja California Zoom-In Orographic Wave Clouds
NPP VIIRS True Color Examples Colorado 11.24.2011 1845 Z, Near Edge of Scan 11.24.2011 2028 UTC, Near Nadir VIIRS maintains similar spatial resolution quality at edge of 3000 km swath
NPP VIIRS True Color Examples Colorado
NPP VIIRS DNB Examples City Lights Los Angeles & San Diego Metropolitan Areas Slight geolocation bias evident in coastal city light imagery. Correction is pending analysis
NPP VIIRS DNB Examples Agriculture “hole” in Salinas (dark spot in right image)
Near Real-Time Demo Domains Will populate two US domains/sectors shortly @ http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/VIIRS.html
Near Real-Time Demo Domains Will populate two US domains/sectors shortly: NASA Blue Marble
Near Real-Time Demo Domains Will populate two US domains/sectors shortly: NASA Blue Marble